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Bash on Balls

18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 6 stories, 12 comments · first 2011-07-19 · latest 2026-08-28

Mentions per year 18 mentions · busiest year 2012 (3)
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  1. There's even a Rails-like framework for Bash: https://github.com/jneen/balls
    comment by tombert · 2026-06-16 · in TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
  2. There was also Bash on Balls, in case you don't have that shiny cmd.exe on your machine https://github.com/jneen/balls
    comment by elliottcarlson · 2023-12-21 · in DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (2010)
  3. …on balls" , a joke web "framework" written in bash. I think it might have pre-dated this a bit? https://github.com/jneen/balls/tree/master/lib
    comment by locusofself · 2022-01-17 · in DOS on Dope (2010)
  4. for a more complete solution, check out Bash On Balls, a Rails clone written in bash: https://github.com/jneen/balls
    comment by tessierashpool · 2021-12-22 · in Sherver: Bash lightweight web server
  5. …[2] https://github.com/philipl/pifs [3] https://github.com/hubsmoke/bro [4] https://github.com/jneen/balls
    comment by tombert · 2021-12-06 · in No Easter Eggs in Curl
  6. …dialects is my weird pet hobby. Some additional related projects not yet mentioned: balls (bash): https://github.com/jneen/balls czhttpd (zsh; full disclosure, author here): https://github.com/jsks/czhttpd sh-httpd (ksh):…
    comment by jsks · 2019-04-13 · in I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash
  7. Makes me think of bash on balls, a web platform written in bash - https://github.com/jneen/balls
    comment by Teknoman117 · 2018-08-10 · in Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash
  8. If that's what you want there's always Bash on Balls! [0] [0] https://github.com/jneen/balls
    comment by shakna · 2017-05-25 · in Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell
  9. Remember the full web framework on Bash? Bash on Balls! https://github.com/jneen/balls I just love the name :) Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2781019
    comment by esamatti · 2015-09-06 · in Simple web server using bash and nc
  10. I think this one has a better name, Bash on Balls. https://github.com/jayferd/balls
    comment by conradev · 2012-09-16 · in Bashttpd - An http server in bash
  11. …have been jokes in the past: * Cobol on Cogs: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM * Bash on Balls: https://github.com/jayferd/balls (more of a bizarre proof of concept than an out-and-out joke) That's no discredit to your own development…
    comment by oinksoft · 2012-08-13 · in Python on Wheels
  12. Bash is another example! I've always wanted to create a web app using Bash on Balls [1] [1] https://github.com/jayferd/balls/
    comment by kintamanimatt · 2012-06-29 · in Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity